The collection contains articles of the participants of the International Scientific and Practical Conference dedicated to the 95th anniversary of the Doctor of Philological Sciences, Professor, Honorary Professor of MPSU, Head of the Department of English Grammar Mark Yakovlevich Bloch (November 28-29, 2019 . ). The subject of the collection reflects a wide range of interests of the authors of the articles: presented materials on general linguistics, philosophy and history of language, semantic, phonetic, stylistic, cultural features, literary studies, cognitive studies, translation problems, theory of teaching foreign languages . The publication is addressed to bachelors, undergraduates, graduate students, doctoral students, all interested in the theory and practice of modern literary education .